A tiny object half a universe away, a scar in a stream of stars circling the Milky Way, and an unusual star cluster in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny though ...

Astronomers have broken two records in one thanks to an incredible serendipitous alignment of cosmic objects. It's the highest resolution detection of a gravitationally lensed radio arc, and within it ...

If you know a little bit about stars, you've probably heard that the most massive ones end their lives by exploding: they go supernova. The end product of those events is an extremely dense object, ...

Shoujun Wang does research on high energy density laser-created plasma physics at Colorado State University’s Laboratory for Advanced Lasers and Extreme Photonics. A research team led by Colorado ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Northwestern University astrophysicists were among those involved in an international research collaboration that has detected a gravitational-wave signal caused by a merger of ...

A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a new type of dark matter could explain three astrophysical ...

Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny though profoundly dense objects — think of an atom-sized particle wielding ...